How to Read the Jamsil Indoor Stadium Seating Chart

Last verified August 25, 2026

This page reads the seating chart published for Jamsil Indoor Stadium, for someone picking a seat before booking. It covers the layers the drawing uses, the Korean labels printed on it, and the questions it leaves to your own show. Getting to the arena, the doors on the night and the last train home belong to the arrival article in this series.

What the chart draws

The chart is published on NOL World’s English venue page, and the drawing itself is in Korean.

The floor is lettered. Eight zones ring the court, labelled S1구역 through S8구역, and each one carries its own seat count in brackets: 157 in S1, 198 in S5, 72 in S3. The centre is drawn as a marked ball court — centre circle, halfway line, goal areas — rather than as seating.

Above them the seating is numbered in two rows, 1 to 18 on the inner row and 20 to 37 on the outer, with a count printed inside each cell. On the chart read here the ring numbers are printed 1 to 37 — but there is no 19 on the drawing. That leaves 36 numbered cells, and their sizes vary widely: 38 seats in section 1 against 419 in section 20. Neither page read here explains the gap.

Some cells carry a second line. Inside section 18’s cell it reads VIP석 [46], and inside section 1’s cell 기자석 [52]. Those lines sit within the numbered cell rather than in a box of their own.

전광판, the scoreboard, sits in a box of its own outside the 27 cell.

The drawing below stacks the floor and the two numbered rows as the chart stacks them, from the floor outward.

Reading the Korean labels

The door labels are printed only in Korean: 내1문 to 내5문 on the concourse band inside the number ring, and 2-1문 to 2-4문 on the building’s outer arc. The character 문 means door. The outer arc carries more than those four. Hyphenated labels reading 내-2문 to 내-5문 are printed there too; of that set only 내-1문 is absent from the outside. Two of them, by 내-4문 and 내-3문, carry a triangular mark labelled 출입구; a bare triangle sits by 내-5문; 내-2문 has none. The chart’s five 내n문 and four 2-n문 labels match the five-and-four the rental page counts for levels 1 and 2, but no page read here says which set belongs to which level.

Adjacency is drawn, not tabled. Sections 35 to 37 sit beside 2-1문 at the top of the drawing, and floor zones S1 and S2 sit by 내5문. The pages read here carry no door-to-section list in their text, so the picture is the only place that pairing appears.

The chart carries no colour legend and marks no compass, so the coloured rings are not read here as level markers and 남문 and 동문, complex gate labels stamped on the road lines, cannot be turned into real-world directions.

Seats by level, as the floor plan prints them

The rental page’s 도면 section is the one that counts seats by level: 1층 1,000석, 2층 4,273석 including the 52 press seats, and 3층 5,759석. That section prints its own total, 총좌석수 11,032석.

Level 1 is the retractable part. The rental page says 1층은 수납식 객석이 있어, that the lower seating retracts, and gives that as the reason the hall takes more than one kind of event. NOL World describes level 1 as the floor section, with levels 2 and 3 seated in the round.

For picking a seat, the number that matters is the section printed on the chart, not the building total.

What the chart settles, and what your show decides

Question	What the chart shows	What it leaves to the show
Where a section sits	Every numbered section and lettered zone drawn in place, with its own seat count inside	Which sections go on sale at all
Price grade	VIP석 [46] printed as a second line inside section 18’s cell, as a block name	Whether a show uses grades at all, and what they are called — none of the pages read here says
Doors	내1문 to 내5문 and 2-1문 to 2-4문 drawn next to particular sections	Which door your ticket sends you to; the pages read here print no door-to-section table
Colours and direction	Rings in different colours, and complex gate labels such as 남문 and 동문	The drawing carries no legend and marks no compass, so neither is decoded here
Standing	Level 1 drawn as zones S1 to S8 around a marked ball court, described as retractable seating	Whether any part of the floor is sold standing; the word does not appear on the pages read here
How much of the hall is used	The full ring, as the building’s fixed layout	NOL World says that depending on the stage setup all seats are sometimes used, and in other cases only about half, excluding the area behind the stage

The cells above come from the rental page and NOL World’s venue page, read 2026-08-25.

What the upper levels are like

The seller’s page does rate the upper levels. NOL World describes levels 2 and 3 as seating in the round, all the way around the floor. It calls that seating quite steep, says the steepness gives a good view of the whole stage, and asks you to take care moving around a dark hall before and after the show.

What no page here rates is the row you end up in. Sightlines from a particular row are not the kind of thing an operator publishes, so the accounts below are other people’s rather than ours.